Max Reyter

Max Andreyevich Reyter (24 April 1886-6 April 1950) was a Colonel-General of the Soviet Red Army who commanded the Bryansk Front from 1942 to 1943, during World War II.

Biography
Max Andreyevich Reyter was born on 24 April 1886 in Ziras Parish, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ziru Pagasts, Latvia) to a family of Latvian peasants. He volunteered in the Imperial Russian Army in 1906 and rose to the rank of colonel in 1917, fighting in World War I. Reyter joined the Red Army in 1919 during the Russian Civil War, and he fought in the Polish-Soviet War and Kronstadt Rebellion as a regimental commander. In 1929, he was sent to fight in the Chinese Civil War against Zhang Xueliang and the Kuomintang, and he became a Lieutenant-General in July 1940. From 28 September 1942 to 12 March 1943, he commanded the Bryansk Front during World War II, and he was sent to Ural in September 1943 to lead the military district there. Reyter died in Moscow in 1950 at the age of 63.